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April 4: Well, now that I have just a day and a weekend of my ten days off left, I suddenly feel ready to roll. Ridiculous. My vacation has been a dud so far. All I've gotten done so far is one mathemaku that I've decided not to try to get published. It's not a failure because I have a variation of it in mind that I hope will improve it. If I can take care of it today, I'll be able to rate the vacation better than D-. I'm pretty sure I will.
The latest news on the neology front is that "illumagery" is back. "Depictry" is just too crappy-sounding to my ear, and awkward. Besides, I got up this morning with another idea for a book that will make me rich and famous: Memoirs of a Neologophiliac. One chapter in it will discuss "illumagery" so vividly and intelligently that it will immediately enter the vernacular. Plus, one of things I'll do with the money I make is start the Unaccredited Grumman School of Illumagery. That will officialize it. But "depictry" and its kin will remain here in case "illumagery" doesn't make it.
Before leaving to find things to do to keep from working on my mathemaku or my mini-essay for Modern Haiku, I have another important lesson in eulinguistics (good activity in language) to impart. It deals with another new Grummanism, the "illumeme." It is to illumagery what the texteme is to literature. Lesson One: a unit of underlining is not a illumeme but a texteme--unless it is clearly used pictorially, in which case it becomes a
Note to those who have been lax in taking notes: "texteme" is my term for all written linguistic marks. Unlike the standard term, "grapheme," it includes punctuation marks."
More on this tomorrow, plus a report on how many great things I accomplished today!
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